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Rabbi Hertz Frankel, principal of secular studies at the Beis Rochel girls' schools of the Satmar movement, said his schools don't say the pledge and it hasn't come up. ''We do say Ani Mamin every day,'' says Rabbi Frankel, referring to the affirmation of faith that God will send a Redeemer in the End of Days. ''That's a pledge, too.'' The Pledge of Allegiance, though, has long been instituted at the all-Satmar public school in upstate Kiryas Joel.
One yeshiva principal, who asked not to be named, was pleased that the pledge is returning God to the public schools, even without school prayer, through the verse: ''One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.''
Rabbi Hertz Frankel, principal of secular studies at the Beis Rochel girls' schools of the Satmar movement, said his schools don't say the pledge and it hasn't come up. ''We do say Ani Mamin every day,'' says Rabbi Frankel, referring to the affirmation of faith that God will send a Redeemer in the End of Days. ''That's a pledge, too.'' The Pledge of Allegiance, though, has long been instituted at the all-Satmar public school in upstate Kiryas Joel.
One yeshiva principal, who asked not to be named, was pleased that the pledge is returning God to the public schools, even without school prayer, through the verse: ''One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.''